Globe 2019 SUMMER

Travelling and Photography
Meet the member
Dan Bachmann
Globetrotter and avid shutterbug Dan Bachmann has often presented
tales of his travels at the Club’s London meetings. He is also a member
of The Camera Club where he frequently exhibits his work. Here, he
talks about his lifelong involvement with photography and shares some
of his recent travel images.
Life is a journey, one which has taken me to many places, both of the
mind and of the world. When I was a boy, my mother used to plan
wonderful family holidays along the East Coast of the USA and in Scotland.
She had the travel bug, something which I did not understand at
the time. To fight the tedium of these holidays, I saved up some money
selling magazines to buy a Kodak Instant camera which rapidly became
my travel companion. This was the starting point of my long journey
into photography. Later on, on my fifteenth birthday, I became the proud
owner of a Pentax K1000 SLR. With this camera, I must have taken
around 2000 pictures in a five-year span – perhaps five of which were
any good.
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